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Are You a Slow-Start Sloth?
How long have you been building that vision of yours? When your ambitions don’t take your capacities into consideration you just might find yourself being the Slow-Start Sloth. I know, it’s not the sexy journey you envisioned when you began at the starting line. Everywhere you look, you’re a click away from another quick way…
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The Stealthy Self-Doubt Dragon
(He’s just a cartoon, dude.) This may be your #1 enemy. Crouched in your mind, lurking to spit some scorching fire about how you are not good enough to succeed, or everything you want to contribute is already being done by someone else, but in a better way. Quietly sneaking whispers “It will fail. You…
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Is The Might Owl Calling?
The Haunting Hunter The Might Owl is the nocturnal daydreamer’s “whenevermore” raven. Emerging nightly from the dark hideaway where you keep your creative darlings – a gaping field of vision and farsighted as can be, always calling out the same question. You remain haunted by your imagination, never to sleep under hounding echoes of –…
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10 Power Points to Perfecting Your 10 Minute Presentation: A GUIDE
Are You Making a Big Impact with your Small Business Presentation? The Benefit of Presentations Presentations allow for unique opportunities for you to talk about your business. It is a format that allows for complete control of the conversation around your brand. It is in the presentation that you can either loose or gain an…
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How Do I Make Good Content?
How Do I Make Good Content? The Key To Good Written Content is Habit. Many of the small business owners I have consulted do not know the first thing about maintaining written content on their websites. It can be a challenge to get creative with relevant content week after week, or even with monthly-posted content.…
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What is the Impact-Maker Recipe?
If you want to make an impact, serve up some PIE. An impact-maker is more than a business owner or content creator. An impact-maker grows a community. We don’t recognize you by your fancy lifestyle, but by your reputation. These hard-working, question-asking, problem-solving leaders in our towns, cities, and states are always ninja-flexing through red…
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Promote: Relationship
Promote: v. 1. further the progress of (something, especially a cause, venture, or aim); support or actively encourage. 2. advance or raise (someone) to a higher position or rank. Syn. Encourage, advance, aid, upgrade, raise, support, boost, champion, advocate Promoting is no small thing. As small businesspeople, we have to become experts and being our…
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The Power of Continuing Education
Maxina. 2017 Why continue your education? Whether you are starting business, practicing a trade, have completed a degree program, continuing your education is a key ingredient in maintaining forward momentum in your field. A lifetime of education also facilitates opportunities to find new passions, solve old problems, and pass down important knowledge. If you are…